The number of burials at New York’s Hart Island, a sprawling public cemetery, has increased fivefold as the death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise
De Blasio spoke Friday at the USTA Indoor Training Center, part of the tennis stadium complex that hosts the U.S. Open, which has now been turned into a makeshift hospital and was set to start accepting patients Friday.
The tennis center is now lined with hospital beds in cubicles fashioned out of black curtains. About 100 patients were expected to arrive Friday, mostly from hard-hit NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, and the center has space to hold 470. But if the city does not need as many hospital beds as was projected under worst-case scenarios, it may convert the tennis center and similar facilities into quarantine centers, where people suffering from more mild cases of the virus can stay to avoid infecting their families at home.The city is also eyeing the use of hotel rooms for quarantine space, but the mayor said New York is at least “weeks away” from being able to offer such space for the general public.
Health care workers are already able to stay in hotels, which the city has used to house homeless people and released prisoners who have tested positive for Covid-19. About 2,000 rooms are currently in use.
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